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Irish episcopal conference recalls Laudato Si' Week, calls for transition from fossil fuels (CWN)

Posted on 05/18/2026 04:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Bishop Martin Hayes of Kilmore, the episcopal coordinator of Laudato Si’ for the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, issued a statement yesterday for Laudato Si’ Week, named after Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical letter on care for our common home.

Pomposa Abbey marks 1,000 years (CWN)

Posted on 05/18/2026 04:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Archbishop Gian Carlo Perego of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy, celebrated a Mass on May 9 marking the thousandth anniversary of Pomposa Abbey (video).

Dedication of new church among signs of hope for Church in Myanmar (CWN)

Posted on 05/18/2026 03:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

In a prominent front-page article in its May 16 edition, L’Osservatore Romano drew attention to signs of hope for the Church in Myanmar, where a military coup in 2021 precipitated a civil war.

Cardinal Dolan, Bishop Barron address Rededicate 250 (CWN)

Posted on 05/18/2026 03:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop emeritus of New York, and Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, joined civil and other religious leaders in addressing Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving.

May. 18 Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. John I, Pope & Martyr, Opt. Mem.

Posted on 05/18/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of Pope St. John I (d. 526), who was elected Pope in 523. The Arian King Theodoric sent him as his ambassador to Emperor Justin in Constantinople. On John I's return, he was captured by the king, who was displeased at the outcome of the embassy and cast him into prison at Ravenna where he died a few days later. As pope he was responsible for introducing the Alexandrian computation of the date of Easter; it came to be accepted throughout the West.